We asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us their favorite unscripted movie moments. Here are the iconic results.
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Martin Scorsese liked the story so much that he wanted it included into the script: "However, he did not tell anyone outside of Pesci and Liotta that the scene would be improvised, because he wanted to see their genuine surprised reactions."
Hoffman revealed that the budget for the film was so low that they didn't use extras for a lot of scenes, so when he and Jon Voight crossed the street and a cab driver jumped the light, he wanted to stay in character: "I wound up saying, ‘I’m walkin’ here!’ But what was going through my head is: ‘Hey, we’re makin’ a movie here! And you just fucked this shot up.'"
Before shooting the scene, he said, "I'm sure most of what I'm going to be doing out there is acting and not reacting... I'm not going to try to imagine the pain, because I'm sure what I can imagine will be worse than what I'm going to experience." He was wrong.
Leo said that the cast and crew gave him a standing ovation after the scene was finished, and he kept acting in the scene because "it was more interesting to watch Quentin's and Jamie's reaction off-camera than to look at my hand."
Michael McKean, who played Mr. Green, said: "All that was written was, 'I hated her so much that I wanted to kill her,' or something like that. But she just kind of went into a fugue about hatred. She did it three or four times, and each time was funnier than the last."
Ronald Shusett, one of the producers on the film, said that it was pure pandemonium on the set: "Veronica Cartwright... when the blood hit her, she passed out. I heard from Yaphet Kotto's wife that after that scene he went to his room and wouldn't talk to anybody."
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
The balloon getting stuck was a perfect coincidence that could never happen again, even if you tried.
Scheider actually ad-libbed that line in a few different scenes, but they ultimately paired it with the time he first saw the shark.
David Peoples, one of the screenwriters, was a little hesitant when Hauer started to go off-book: "He looked at me like a naughty little boy, like he was checking to see if the writer was going to be upset... I was a little upset and threatened by it. Later, seeing the movie, that was a brilliant contribution of Rutger's... It is absolutely beautiful."
In an interview, he said: "Some kid in my neighborhood said, 'Just keep it real. Just make sure you keep it real.' And I was like, 'Oh. That’s what the kids are saying now?' And so I put that in there myself.'"
In an interview, Disney animator Eric Goldberg commented on how much Robin Williams improvised, saying, "Did I see Robin doing any improvisation? That would be like saying, 'Did you see the pope wearing his vestments?' He turned into a game show host, an evangelist."